10 Reasons We've Already Lost The Impending War Against The Robots
4. We Rely Too Much On Computers
This shouldn't be news to anyone reading this list on some form of a computer, but we kind of rely on technology for countless number of activities in day-to-day life. Consequently, one of the machines greatest assets would be taking away technology from us. It would cripple our communication systems, electrical networks, waterworks and everything we use on a daily basis to survive in modern society. How long could you go without getting water piped to your home? Civilisation would completely break down, making us completely disorganised. They may wait for people to kill each other off or use our disorganisation to make it easier to hunt us down. One of the biggest downsides of taking away technology is that we wouldn't be able to mount a feasible defence against the enemy. Wed essentially be cave people battling against a super-intelligent and determined enemy. Lets say, hypothetically, you and a few people around you survived the initial assault. How would you go about fighting the enemy? Would you even know its the robots that you're battling? Most people would assume there was some sort of terrorist attack, not that the machines are attacking. Unless people see machines physically attacking them, there is no specific reason to think the Robot War has started. Without the news or communication between other humans, we wouldn't even know who or what our enemy was. Even if humans knew the robots were attacking, co-ordinating a counter attack would be impossible. In order to win, we would need to destroy the brain of the robot army. This could be anywhere, surrounded by an enormous amount of defenders. For example, in Daniel H. Wilsons novel Robopocalypse, the brain is buried in a poisonous cave in rural Alaska. The brain could be anywhere on, above or below the earth. There could even be more than one brain, hidden in the remotest parts of the world. There are just too many places to hide and defend itself. Wed need information from across the globe and wed just never be able to communicate it to each other.
